Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?